The Academy of Teaching, Training, and Learning
Cultivating imaginations and skills through courses and guides. From courses on holistic community thriving to training in a specific field, our work equips practitioners with the tools to be agents of thriving.
Our Projects
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Community Craft Collaborative
A unique hands-on, peer learning experience that nurtures faith-inspired imagination alongside faith-informed action.
Community Craft leverages lived theology, practical insight, and local wisdom to help participants research, discern, and ideate how they could grow the thriving of their community.
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Church & Community Placemaking Lab
A cohort experience to catalyze community and economic development on church properties.
The Church & Community Placemaking Lab seeks to generate social impact by helping participating communities align community interests, leverage church real estate, and attract investment opportunities.
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Cultivating Thriving Communities Course
Rural pastors impacting local communities.
Equipping rural pastors to meaningfully engage with the challenges of parish leadership in rural North Carolina communities through a cross-sector, community impact capstone project.